Neck ornament made from small light beige shells which have been strung onto plant (raffia palm?) fibre string. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 18/7/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Neck ornament made from small light beige shells which have been strung onto plant (raffia palm?) fibre string. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 18/7/2005]
Geographical reference: Tanzania, United Republic of
Africa > Eastern Africa > Tanzania, United Republic of; Congo, Democratic Republic of
Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Democratic Republic of; Zambia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Zambia; Burundi
Africa > Eastern Africa > Burundi; Lake Tanganyika
Person: Field collector Edward Coode Hore; PRM source Edward Coode Hore
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1889
Date collected: By 1889
Acquisition information: Donated: 1889
Materials and processes: Material Shell, Material Plant Fibre Yarn, Process Strung
Dimensions: Length: max 520 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1889.13.11
Research and responses: 'Additions to Museum' Notebook entry [page 39] - June 15 1889 Capt. E. Coode Hore, 26 Stavordale Road, Highbury Hill, London N. 4 specimens of native made clothing materials of cotton, raphia, and bark; 3 iron hair pins of the Uguha district, Polished section of Hippopotamus hide, the tribal ornament of Ujiji, Small coil of Raphia palm fibre as sold (for stringing beads) at the market at Ujiji, Basket from Urundi, Shells from Lake Tanganyika All the specimens from the region round Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa. - Also copy of "To Lake Tanganyika in a bath chair" by Mrs Hore